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	I have just spent about 4-8 hours over the past couple of days
setting up and using pc-ditto with msdos 3.21.  I have had much trouble
transfering files between the st and the virtual pc, though I have been
sporadically successful.  Does anyone know a great deal about the
incompatibilities between the file systems?  I have been told that disks
formatted under msdos will work fine with tos, but I have found that this
is not always true.  I could not access some of the files on my msdos
master disk under tos, though under msdos, I could easily access them.
Also, I have formatted disks under msdos, copied files to them, then when I
return to tos/gemdos, I find that no files show up in the disk's window.

Background:  I have a 1040ST with an internal DS disk drive and an external 
5 1/4" IB systems disk drive.  I am using res.prg to change the step rate
for the external drive, and I have used dcformat, fmt (from IB systems),
pcd_dfmt(sp?) (from the pc-ditto company) and msdos format.

	On a related subject, what are the problems with using a fixed
disk for both msdos and tos?

Thanks in advance,
Tom Erbe-Technical Director-Center for Contemporary Music-Mills College
         tom@mills.berkeley.edu   -or-   tom@jiff.berkeley.edu